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Austin-area emergency officials urge residents to register for Warn Central Texas, prepare for spring floods
Summary
City and county emergency managers and watershed staff briefed residents on flood-season risks, urged signing up for Warn Central Texas alerts and Ready Central Texas resources, and outlined outreach to vulnerable people ahead of April–May storms.
Debridick, marketing manager for the Office of Emergency Management, and Eric Carter, emergency manager for Travis County, urged Central Texas residents to prepare for spring storms and flash flooding and to register for the Warn Central Texas alert system.
Officials said April and May are the region’s principal severe-weather months and pointed to past flood events — including Austin-area flooding in 2013 and May 2015 — as reasons to take preparedness steps now. Debridick said the emergency office has text-message connections with about 1,000 vulnerable people and that staff use those messages to warn residents and people experiencing…
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